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I don't think he'll take them with him when going after Itachi, that's his own very personal affair and I'm sure he wants to deal with Itachi on his own. I'm thinking that it's possible that he'll want to screw the Akatsuki (and thus Itachi) over my going after one of the two or three(?) jinchuurikis that are left (besides Naruto). I guess this theory is kind of a build on 2nr's theory because it works pretty good with Karin's supposed 'chakra sensoring' ability. It's also possible that the true purpose of the sharingan has something to do with jinchuurikis (only loosely based on Sasuke's conversation with kyuubi) but there it is. Something along those lines maybe...

I think he needs these 3 to fight off other Akatsuki whilst he fights Itachi. They're all gonna want to protect Itachi cos they can't afford to lose more members. Like Sasuke said he has a certain goal to carry out and it'll be much more efficient if he were to do it with a full platoon. But the theory mentioned above about capturing Naruto to lure out Itachi was a good one. It'd make sense to have Karin against Sakura, Juugo against Sai and Suigetsu against Yamato or Kakashi. I think it'd be nice to see Kakashi go off against Zabuza's sword again =]

What i think is that Sasuke has some1 in mind... before killing orochimaru he told him that there is nothing more he can teach im so he is going to kill orochimaru...... Now i think that he is searching for some1 who can teach him..... maybe Uchiha Madara..... because he knows that he is not strong enough to take out Itachi at the moment.....
and before killing Orochimaru he said that he can't offer his Uchiha body and abilities to someone as pathetic as orochimaru... maybe he is planning to train under some on who is powerful and has uchiha body.........
i think that can also be the rason that Kishi made up a plot where Kyuubi tells Sasuke about uchiha madara.....

He has a reason : catching Itachi. He is clearly ready to sacrifice everything to get him. And he isn't stupid enough to attack directly Konoha to get Naruto.

And how would attacking Konoha help him catch Itachi?

Still no matter how I look at it Team Sasuke seems weak to get anything done. I say he's going on a big treasure hunt to get something(It could be the other jinchuuriki to flush Itachi out I guess). :O Otherwise why does he need people with special abilities or are those people especially good against Itachi? ?;(

In the manga, everything happened really fast. Everybody was in awe of Naruto's quick reaction and all.
In the anime, we only have a granny running and screaming. Naruto's intervention won't look as spectacular.

It was a good episode, yes the constant switching between groups got a little annoying and the Itachi fight did seem a little too drawn out. In fact I thought to myself while watching it "OMG are they gonna? Yup, yup they did, I can't believe they actually got a whole episode in without the Itachi fight really beginning"

Question: When Itachi says "OMG Kakashi you didn't....." Is he referring to obtaining the MS, in which case he had no idea Kakashi posses it, and therefore if Sasuke obtained the MS the total number of people able to use it would be 3, but if Itachi is unaware of Kakashi's......then there is another user??

Naruto's origin has never been treated as a mystery in the series so I'm sort of perplexed why people spend time engaging in baseless speculation. Color me confused.

His origins were never treated as a mystery? Really? Well then I have a few qeustions you can answer so all the speculation can be put to rest.

Is he relatedy to the 4th? If so, how are they related?
Doesnt anyone in the villiage know about his true lineage?
Who is his mom? Is she dead?
Deos Naruto even have a mom?
Is he related to Pein?
Is he really from Konoha?